it's not just putin's decision to grant asylum to fugitive nsa leaker edward snowden. he has also defied the u.s. by selling heavy weapons to the syrian government as its accused of slaughtering its own people. the president vented about it last night with jay leno. >> there have been times where they slipped back into cold war thinking and a coal war mentality. what i say to president putin is, that's the past. >> putin seems to be like one of those old school kgb guys. >> he headed up the kgb. >> reporter: today in a speech, the president alluded to the bigger crises he is confronting, the terror threats that has forced the closing of embassies throughout the middle east. >> here's what those who would cowardly attack our civilians forget. the united states is never going to retreat from the world. >> reporter: the embassies will remain closed until at least the end of the week. as one senior official told me tonight, the threat is not over. diane? >> thank you. now we want to bring everyone up to date on the health of former george w. bush who was released from the